I am using Xalan-j_2_5_1. I have a set of elements (recovered by SQL), each
containing four child elements: property, prvalue, user_id and acct_id. I can
use the Muench method to obtain a nodeset containing all elements with a
particular value of "property". I can sort this into the required order. Using
a for-each loop I can display this in a table as:
+---------+--------+--------+--------+
|property1|prvalue1|user_id1|acct_id1|
+---------+--------+--------+--------+
|property1|prvalue1|user_id1|acct_id2|
+---------+--------+--------+--------+
|property1|prvalue1|user_id2|acct_id1|
+---------+--------+--------+--------+
I want to display it as:
+--------+------------------+
|property1 - prvalue1 |
+--------+------------------+
|user_id1|acct_id1, acct_id2|
+--------+------------------+
|user_id2|acct_id1 ... |
+--------+------------------+
In order to do this I need to either access the element in my nodeset before
"." or store the values of prvalue and user_id from one iteration to access in
the next iteration, to do the appropriate format control.
I can get the result I need by successively searching the source tree, but the
length of this table makes this unacceptably slow (4 1/2 hours).
I had hoped that EXSLT set:leading() would provide a solution, but I note that
the documentation shows this returns a node set in document order, not in the
order of the sorted subset I have obtained, so I have not pursued this.
This seems such a common requirement that I am sure there is a straightforward
answer and I apologise if I have missed it.
Thank you.
John Marshall
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